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I get the same question in my Quora notifications two or three times a week, phrased a dozen different ways: do AI filmmakers make money, where do you even post an AI-made series, is there a real platform for this yet. The honest answer is that almost none of the money in AI filmmaking right…

This is how most of the professional video editor spend their time on projects: analyzing the entire footage, spending half the time trimming silent pauses and synching multi-cam angles. Sometimes these things can suck the joy out of the creative process and storytelling. This is why video editors were one of the first ones to…

Rajkumar Hirani did not set out to make an AI film simply because the technology was new. When he came on board to create Bajaj’s 100-year corporate film, the idea had already been developed around the company’s historical connection with Mahatma Gandhi. His task was to turn that idea into almost 10-minute film that could…

AI is making movie scenes dramatically cheaper to produce. In China, a film student says a wedding scene that would typically cost about 60,000 yuan, roughly $9,000, to shoot using conventional methods can now be created with generative AI for about 1,400 yuan, roughly $200, a fraction of the original cost.

Yes, “AI slop” is real, Korea’s top AI policy official acknowledges, and yes, the flood of AI-generated content online can have “adverse effects.” At the same time, as vice chair of the presidential National AI Strategy Committee, Ha Jung-woo is pushing to broaden video creators’ access to AI production tools and develop homegrown technology that…

One of the most moving screenings I’ve ever attended was the premiere, at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, of Close Your Eyes, the third narrative feature made by the Spanish director Víctor Erice. Erice, who was eighty-two at the time, did not attend the screening, but it had a momentous quality to it nonetheless. The…